The next episode of Utaban involved the rest of the SMAP interview, and then Morning Musume. SMAP cracks me up. As you'll remember, Tsuyoshi (hm.... i suppose i should call him kusanagi instead, so that he doesn't get confused with kinki kid's tsuyoshi-kun, huh....) Okay, so Kusanagi wanted Korean DVDs as he's studying Korean. So they had him say some stuff in Korean for the crowd. The most hysterical part was the fact that all of SMAP was staring at him with the exact same expression: very polite, smiling, looking highly interesting and completely uncomprehending. It seemed impressive, but I honestly don't know. Shingo said threw in that he likes beer. He proceeded to talk about his extremely love of beer, how he can't go a day without it, how even after SMAP practice no matter how tired he is he'll head to the convenience store across the street from the studio and buy a beer just to drink it outside the door... all I could think was, well, isn't that a little like, y'know, excessive or something, Shingo? Even the rest of SMAP was like, "You've GOT to stop drinking right outside of the convenience store, okay?"
Next, started asking some fan questions. One was "Which member of SMAP dislikes summer the most?" Every single SMAP member (including Goro) pointed to Goro. It's apparently not really summer, but it's the beach. He despises the beach. He had two very traumatic experiences at the beach. The first was when SMAP was in Hawaii for some reason or another. He was lounging on a big float, when he was caught in a current and swept out to sea. Apparently a nice surfer found him and brought him back in, but it was pretty traumatic for poor Goro. Some of the others started talking about how they just turned around and suddenly couldn't see Goro in the water, until they figured out that the teeny dot in the distance must have been him. The second was also at the beach with SMAP. They were all at a photo shoot on the beach when the photographer told them to jump into the air. They all started jumping, but Goro wouldn't jump. As KimuTaku put it, he was just kneeling, crying, and kept saying over and over again that he couldn't jump, he just couldn't. So SMAP jumped over and over again, with KimuTaku telling him to hurry up and jump, but Goro kept insisting he couldn't. Nakai took over the story from KimuTaku and said that after the shoot was over, they all crowded around Goro and noticed that he had a giant, painful looking injury (rash, bruise, something like that) covering almost half of one calf. Nakai scolded him and told Goro, "You should have told us quicker~!" ....yeah, I'd hate beaches, too.
Throughout this all, btw, Goro was really funny. He's incredibly polite and soft-spoken during interview, which is pretty unexpected for, well, any member of SMAP pretty much. But the funniest thing was that he didn't really need to worry about talking, anyway, since KimuTaku and Nakai always told his stories for him. It was really really cute. Aw~!
Next up was Morning Musume. Utaban likes them. Nakai gets to go into idol mode, while Taka-san likes to mock them and talk about how he's gonna go on a date with Gottsan (Goto Maki). His extreme reactions are always supplemented by fun CG effects, which got Nakai yelling at him ("Stop it! Those CG cost money, you know!"). Their newest single, "The Peace", is wonderfully Tsunku-y cheesy, and is their "sailor" themed one, which means they all get to wear sailor suits. Ah, Morning Musume, the dream of salarymen everywhere. Anyway, Ishikawa Rika was apparently really nervous about the song because she was in the center of all of the formations. It's apparently a really traumatic thing for a young idol to be in the center of formations, since everyone always looks at you and all. Nakai said that he hates being in the center of the SMAP formations, too. Taka-san said that it's because Nakai doesn't sing. Everyone else thought it was pretty funny, but Nakai seemed less than entirely amused. you didn't have to say something that was so, well, TRUE, taka-san....
But there was one event that summed up why I think Morning Musume is too cute. Yaguchi was saying that although most of Morning Musume are Taka-san fans, she likes Nakai better of the Utaban team. Nakai said it was because the leaders had to stick together. After Nakazawa Yuko left Morning Musume, they needed a new leader and everyone assumed that Yuko-san's right hand woman, Yaguchi, would become the new leader, but actually, the leader is tough woman Iida Kaori. Iida apparently has some complexes about being leader, and gets really really nervous about most everything about the job. Yaguchi corrected Nakai and said that even though Iida wasn't Yuko-san, she was a very good leader. She said that even though Iida gets so nervous and scared, she puts it all away in order to gather Morning Musume together and make sure they do a good job. That, Yaguchi said, is why she respects Iida as leader so much. At which point Iida, tough leader woman, burst into tears. She started absolutely bawling and saying that she was so happy and so glad that Yaguchi said such nice things about her and all that stuff. Kago-chan looked like she was going to cry, too, and made Iida a little paper heart (no idea what she tore it out of, but she made it). Nakai attempted to regain order to the situation and asked Tsuji-chan, "What do you think about what we were just talking about, Tsuji?" Tsuji-chan thought about it very seriously for a few moments before finally saying, "I like Taka-san better than Nakai." Everyone burst out laughing and Yaguchi had to start yelling at Tsuji ("He meant KAORI what do you think about KAORI~!"). It was really cute and got a good laugh. And if Morning Musume is good for anything, they're always a good laugh. Man they're fun. ^_^
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